THE MONROE DOCTRINE Reports of Its Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

EL MERCURIC of Santiago, Chile: Khrushchev’s threats are not only against the U.S. but against all countries in Latin America. They must be answered by all countries acting as one.

NEW YORK TIMES: So long as the U.S. has the power to enforce it, the Monroe Doctrine will be alive and kicking.

TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL: The Monroe Doctrine sustains the right of Cuba to have whatever government it wants—including a Communist government.

O JORNAL of Rio de Janeiro: Brazil will comply with her commitments to defend Pan-American solidarity and the Monroe Doctrine.

REVOLUCION, the Castro government mouthpiece in Havana: With the Monroe Doctrine and the treaties at Rio de Janeiro and Caracas, three useless documents, the U.S. pretends to legalize its armed assault against Cuba. It would be a laughing matter if it were not for the fact that it will cost so much blood.

EL SIGLO of Bogota: If the OAS gets shunted aside because of the intervention of other international organizations, its prestige will be broken and it will soon become obsolescent.

EL NACIONAL of Caracas: Semi-colonial peoples have never managed to emancipate themselves without counting on the rivalries be tween great powers. The U.S.S.R. oc cupies for us today the place England had when Simon Bolivar cut the um bilical cord that tied us to Spain. We would not be worthy if we did not take advantage of that reality.

LA PRENSA of Lima: On the chessboard of international rivalries, Khrushchev is now moving a pawn named Fidel Castro.

RODOLFO JOSE CARDENAS, a leader of Venezuela’s Social Christian Copei: The Americans should not think that Latin America is tranquil at the pros pect of Yankee intervention in Cuba, nor should the Russians think that Cuba will be a new Spain, a new Hun gary or a new Korea.